Hi.

>You are right, but it's more than that. It is also not correct to raise
>a negative number to a float

How come? A floating point number is a rational number!

>and if we take care of the integer powers
>first #ln will take care of enforcing just that (so abs is not necessary).

I insist that it's ok to raise any of squeak's numbers to floats since 
floats are rational numbers.

Andres.